וַיִּסֹּ֥ב שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל לָלֶ֑כֶת וַיַּחֲזֵ֥ק בִּכְנַף־מְעִיל֖וֹ וַיִּקָּרַֽע As Samuel turned to leave, Saul seized the corner ...

To celebrate Purim, many Jews bake and eat a pastry called hamantaschen. The three-cornered cookie is named after Haman's hat ...

I admire Hertz’s willingness to engage directly with modern issues relevant to biblical criticism and classical English Bible commentaries, drawing from both Jewish and non-Jewish literary sources to ...

Amalek exploits spiritual weakness; Parashat Zachor calls on us to strengthen our identity and faith in every generation.

Just as space aliens might benefit from a society rooted in Jewish ideals, so too might humans benefit from the encounter ...

The volume, which combines two books experts believe were printed in Rome around 1473, to be auctioned Tuesday by Jerusalem-based Kedem ...

American Jews have always been optimists about antisemitism. From the very beginning, our country has embraced Jews; George Washington, shortly after assuming the presidency, wrote a letter to the ...

Readers of the Bible are thus invited to engage in a double act of moral imagination. First, they must imagine that they themselves, and not merely their ancestors, were redeemed from slavery in Egypt ...

וַיִּטַּ֥ע אֶ֖שֶׁל בִּבְאֵ֣ר שָׁ֑בַע וַיִּ֨קְרָא־שָׁ֔ם בְּשֵׁ֥ם ה’ אֵ֥ל עוֹלָֽם ( בראשית כא:לג ) He planted an “Eshel” in Be’er Sheva, and he called in the name of Hashem, the God of the world ( ...

During Korban Pesach, the houses themselves assumed the character of a “private Mizbeach" (see Pesachim 96a). The Targum Yonatan (Shmot 19:4) even brings a midrash that Am Yisrael were carried to the ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Hundreds of rabbis, cantors and other Jewish demonstrators gathered outside the headquarters of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday (Feb. 11) to voice opposition ...

History, identity, and antisemitism are colliding, forcing a long overdue reckoning ...